Following the impact, the garage roof of Louis Demaret and his wife, Domenica, was heavily damaged. The tiles are broken, as is the frame, which needs to be redone. The Demaret spouses evoke “the fear of their lives”, especially since their grandson was sleeping upstairs at the time of the events.
“At one point, I heard the sound of an airplane, followed by a boom” explique Sunday. “So I went out, I looked at the front door, the alarm started ringing because the house still vibrated. I went out behind…I couldn’t see anything. I didn’t I haven’t slept all night, I was asking myself a lot of questions. In the morning, it was the neighbor who was looking out of his window who came to ring and said to me: did you see the wreckage in your garden? We stayed speechless. Me in tears, trembling, we wondered what was happening to us. It’s a fright. And the boom, I’ll remember it all my life.”
A frightening boom… it must be said that the piece of plane that hit the roof is huge: “For me, it is at least two meters by three meters” assesses Louis Demaret, who considers himself lucky: “I had a narrow escape… if it falls and it pierces the roof of the house, I’m in my room, and I have it in my bed…”